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Speed is LifeFri, 09 Dec 2016 14:40:39 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Brian McKayhttps://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/opening-day-wrap-up/#comment-30444
Mon, 12 May 2014 17:32:51 +0000http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/?p=15341#comment-30444Thanks for blogging, George.
]]>By: billytheskinkhttps://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/opening-day-wrap-up/#comment-30439
Mon, 12 May 2014 13:48:54 +0000http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/?p=15341#comment-30439Bell’s car is not uglier than Jeff Ward’s Aerosmith-sponsored car from 2001. There are cockroaches prettier than that thing.
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Mon, 12 May 2014 07:34:31 +0000http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/?p=15341#comment-30435Thank you George for the blog entries from this past weekend. If ABC stands for Always Bad Coverage, always good coverage is abbreviated AGC and the G in there stands for your first name, George.

Regarding the Pennzoil colors in IndyCar, it shows that I was not following this sport in the Mears days. I always associate the Pennzoil colors with Sam Hornish, Jr. and it thus feels wrong to see one of his main opponents back in the day, Helio, wear them now on his car, especially given that Hornish’s team Panther Racing have closed up shop during the offseason this year. I confess I’ve never been a Panther Racing fan but this feels kind of like Penske saying “oh, now that you’re gone, we’re stealing it back, buddy”. But good for Team Penske to have such a popular sponsor. Their 3 cars will have a strong showing this month. Power and Montoya may even have a better race finish than Helio in the end.

Regarding the looks of the #6 KV car of Townsend Bell, I can understand why you don’t like its looks but I like that it looks different. To me, the color scheme looks like a plastic bag from a perfume shop. That’s pretty unique for IndyCar.

I’m very much looking forward to your photos of the other one-off color schemes to appear next weekend.

Also, Jacques Villeneuve is running the 3rd Schmidt car. It is now the #5. I wonder how they came up with that number. But I’m sure Villeneuve decided not to run #99 which has usually been on the 3rd Schmidt car in the Month Of May, as a tribute to Greg Moore, following the party line of ChampCar who retired that number back in the day. I feel he should have run Indy again earlier, maybe as a teammate to Ed Carpenter at Sarah Fisher’s team when they also had the Dollar General colors. That would have been a good fit. Yet, Sam Schmidt Peterson Motorsports is a winning team, and it’s great to see him in a good car.

Yesterday when I tuned out of the timing & scoring website, it was Ed Carpenter who had given the #21 car a shakedown, not Hildebrand. Good to hear that JR himself ran it yesterday, too. What does it look like?

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Sun, 11 May 2014 23:11:29 +0000http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/?p=15341#comment-30427Thanks George! It was the next best thing to being there!
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